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Your top Mumsnet memories/moments of the last ten years - post them here

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JustineMumsnet · 13/01/2010 16:49

As some of you may know, this is our tenth year in existence and we thought it would be nice to put together a list of the top ten MN moments during those ten years - obviously not all of you are as old in the tooth as me but everyone's thoughts welcome.

So by way of a starter for ten here and distinctly off the top of my head (so don't shout if I've missed you out!) are some of our most memorable moments/mn events...

Feel free to violently disagree add your own - am sure, being so decrepit we've forgotten loads.

In no particular order...

Christening of SWMNBN and MP's apology for rockets gag
Mile 4 Maude
First live birth
Christmas appeals generally
Biscuitgate
bottom butter
tim dowling and wife - hammering it out on MN
David Cameron's massive panniers
AIBU generally
Pirate sex
Misdee and Peter and the heart transplant
Is that UCM?

OP posts:
cariboo · 17/01/2010 21:02

"loofahs" in the bathtub!

MaHumbug · 17/01/2010 20:44

Oh and the milkshake with added ingrdient to bring on labour.

tokenfemale · 17/01/2010 20:40

I like Shiney's (well her old name) sleb secrets thread. I have learned a LOT on that thread

LauraIngallsWilder · 17/01/2010 20:21

This thread is rather 'classic' in itself - brings back so many memories!

My favourites.......... Im in agreement with everyone else!

Has anyone mentioned the search for the missing strawberry toy - I cant remember exactly what it was but a MNetters child lost their precious soft toy named strawberry and there was almost a nationwide hunt to find it

pingviner · 17/01/2010 17:57

the hedgehog camera sex thread
but mostly because it was funny in real time

AIBU my husband hasnt even booked ahead at christmas last year

May I look for a governess here?

Blu · 17/01/2010 16:28

MartianBishop (I think) started a thread about children's versions of the Bible, and people started doing thier own versions, including MI, who effected a denoument in her account of the death of John The Baptist with the line "Nice plate! Do you have nice plates, at home? We have nice plates..."

JollyPirate · 17/01/2010 12:31

I am sure this must have been mentioned but some time back an MNer who was depressed took an OD and people worked out who she was, sent help and we did a collection for her to support. Brilliant.

madmouse · 16/01/2010 23:20

I know that this one won't make the grade but the support thread that was set up for me when my newborn ds was in NICU and no one would tell me he would survive. It's printed out in his memory box, gosh it made me cry.

And the funniest moment in chidbirth thread I still credit with getting my contractions going...

skymoo · 16/01/2010 22:15

Did sandpaper wife ever come back and let us know what happened>?

Boco · 16/01/2010 22:01

No one else believed that it was really steve sturgeon posting - he called himself the web master! and people told me I was being silly believing that was really him, but it was I tell you!

RonNumber · 16/01/2010 21:23

oh that photographer one had me running to the loo
i did piss myslef

puffling · 16/01/2010 19:39

One where someone conned everyone into thinking she'd made hamster casserole.

E45 · 16/01/2010 19:07

The one where Daddycool was PM'd on Milkshake by Naomi.....

DaddyCool and Naomi from Milkshake

asquashandasqueeeze · 16/01/2010 18:54

PFB thread

Uphill through custard

katie melua

I can't find the others atm

FrannyandZooey · 16/01/2010 18:50

bibbity i love lurkers

100 here, if you haven't gone for good already

PixieOnaLeaf · 16/01/2010 18:43

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asquashandasqueeeze · 16/01/2010 18:41

Lots that have been mentioned already - I was drawn into Mumsnet a long time ago through the Support for Spook threads.

Then I remember the Life is like walking uphill through custard thread

When GF came on when everyone was in Beety's field

the one where the OP came in and found her au pair shagging on the rug

also the Katie Melua song thread

The one where everyone exchanged their pfb stories and www (I think) had a stairgate on one step in her passage

lavender and shooting small animals

bibbitybobbityhat · 16/01/2010 18:26

Oh am so glad that thread was still there! Have re-read with deep pleasure but I was there at the time (lurking), you see, so your theory holds.

almostreal · 16/01/2010 18:12

Amanda1 shagging her boss at the christmas party and then falling for him.

ahundredtimes · 16/01/2010 18:11

Actually re favourite moments: I remember saying to F&Z that the HTT thread was v. funny and was my first thread, and I thought it would be that much fun all the time. And she said MN is that much fun all the time, just that other people are having the fun.

I was like this

ahundredtimes · 16/01/2010 18:10

That's true. Can't we go on another thread. I want to hear your news. Like a teensy little catch up kind of thread

FrannyandZooey · 16/01/2010 18:06

LOL i forgot that one it was shells
i was cacking myself but also shivering with laughter at everyone's suggestions
oh where is it
oh here

Boco body popping was just beautiful
oh god we shouldn't be on this thread 100
it does no good to one's intentions to de-Mumsnet

bibbitybobbityhat · 16/01/2010 17:59

I have fond memories of a F&Z thread where something had been delivered but she couldn't remember ordering it. It was a box of something mysterious and she was too scared to open it (I think it moved or something). Was it giant snails in the end?

ahundredtimes · 16/01/2010 17:53

Ah yes, now Policy, that does still make me laugh. And it did at the time too - Franny v. funny with her quiet shoes on the parquet flooring.

policygarry · 16/01/2010 17:52

Oooh 100x and Franny, I read the HTT thread last night and was crying so hard that DP became quite concerned. Esp. at Boco's bodypopping post.